He made a comment at around 4:00 minutes "who's gonna pay good money for a kyanite"? and just prior to that he said that he walked away from it 3 times. I've been noticing the astronomical prices that high-end dealers are charging for specimens, even the more common species like kyanite, calcite, fluorite, etc. and its concerning that the mineral market has become so expensive that it is out of reach for average working class people to acquire such things unless they are incredibly lucky to get them before they reach the hands of a high-end dealer. I bet the mark-up on such pieces is 1,000% in some cases. I've been collecting for 40 years and remember wonderful pieces at reasonable prices back in the early 80's. I've still got a Bato Pilas silver as big as a potato that is calcite covered in dendritic silver wires. I paid $400.00 for it in 1980. I saw one a while back that was 1/3rd the size of mine and the price was $2,500.00! Some may say that's why minerals are a good investment and I guess this is true but in reality, who can pay ridiculous prices for a specimen in today's economy and expect it to be worth 10 times that in 30 or 40 years? These sort of dealers are really only trying to reach a small elite percentage of mineral collectors who have disposal income's. They aren't trying to reach the novice or intermediate collector market. Most people who go to these shows really are just confined to look and drool over seeing these minerals and couldn't begin to afford them so in essence, these sort of high-end dealer shows are like going to a museum for average collectors because all they can do is look and dream. Thank God there are still small local mineral shows and swaps scattered across the country where decent minerals can still be had by a broader market. If not and all we had were these high-end shows with there sky-high prices that would probably be the end of the hobby as most people simply couldn't afford it. But....its always fun to watch these videos and see these sort of pieces because if your mega rich or just a working class collector, once the love of minerals gets into you, you enjoy seeing such fabulous wonders regardless if they are on your shelf or others.
I will come and help you take care of them. I would love to be a part of this world, even digging kind of. Your collection is awesome. I have trouble concentrating on my job now that my crystal collection is visible to my right. LOL.
He made a comment at around 4:00 minutes "who's gonna pay good money for a kyanite"? and just prior to that he said that he walked away from it 3 times. I've been noticing the astronomical prices that high-end dealers are charging for specimens, even the more common species like kyanite, calcite, fluorite, etc. and its concerning that the mineral market has become so expensive that it is out of reach for average working class people to acquire such things unless they are incredibly lucky to get them before they reach the hands of a high-end dealer. I bet the mark-up on such pieces is 1,000% in some cases. I've been collecting for 40 years and remember wonderful pieces at reasonable prices back in the early 80's. I've still got a Bato Pilas silver as big as a potato that is calcite covered in dendritic silver wires. I paid $400.00 for it in 1980. I saw one a while back that was 1/3rd the size of mine and the price was $2,500.00! Some may say that's why minerals are a good investment and I guess this is true but in reality, who can pay ridiculous prices for a specimen in today's economy and expect it to be worth 10 times that in 30 or 40 years? These sort of dealers are really only trying to reach a small elite percentage of mineral collectors who have disposal income's. They aren't trying to reach the novice or intermediate collector market. Most people who go to these shows really are just confined to look and drool over seeing these minerals and couldn't begin to afford them so in essence, these sort of high-end dealer shows are like going to a museum for average collectors because all they can do is look and dream. Thank God there are still small local mineral shows and swaps scattered across the country where decent minerals can still be had by a broader market. If not and all we had were these high-end shows with there sky-high prices that would probably be the end of the hobby as most people simply couldn't afford it. But....its always fun to watch these videos and see these sort of pieces because if your mega rich or just a working class collector, once the love of minerals gets into you, you enjoy seeing such fabulous wonders regardless if they are on your shelf or others.
That last one had me laughing!! His reaction to it was gold
I will come and help you take care of them. I would love to be a part of this world, even digging kind of. Your collection is awesome. I have trouble concentrating on my job now that my crystal collection is visible to my right. LOL.
Dave is the man
သင်တို့၏ရှာပါအဖိုတန်ကျောက်မြက်ရတနာမျာကိုပြသပေးလိုကျေးဇူတင်ပါသည်ဝါးဝင်လက်လှပတောက်ပနေသောအံအောစရာကြည်ပဲသင်ပြခန်ကအဖိုတန်ရတနာမျာကတလုံးထဲကိုအရောင်စုံပါဩည်သဘာဝတိုင်ပြသထာ၍အလွန်အလွန်ကိုလှပနေသည်ကျေဇူတင်ပါသည်ဂုဏ်သရေရှိလူကြီးမင်းများဗီဒီယိုကြည်ပီတဲလူတိုလဲရတနာများလိုတန်ဖိုးရှိကြပါ
Im wish keenly gemstones VietNam will in together gemstones internation
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